Paul Grenyer

As NorDevCon continues to grow and attract higher numbers of attendees, we began to consider running the conference over two days. To find out if this was something the tech community would be interested in, we conducted a survey of NorDevCon 2015 visitors. We were very pleased to see that two thirds of the 93 respondents would like to see NorDevCon happen over two days. The majority of those surveyed would prefer Thursday and Friday to any other combination of days, with Friday and Saturday morning coming in second, head and shoulders above the other options. Based on this feedback and the direction we would like to take the conference, we have decided to run a number of parallel, hands-on workshops on the Thursday and the regular conference on Friday, with a keynote followed by five streams on the Saturday morning. We are very pleased to announce that Michael Feathers is joining us from the US to give the opening keynote on Friday, as well as running a wor...

What:  Nor(DEV): Docker Beginners Hands on Full Day Workshop Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich NR1 1PH When: Wednesday 27th May @ 9.45am - 4.30pm RSVP:  http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/221748446/ Price: £30 per person Level: Beginners Prerequisites: Laptop with SSH client Location: Conference Room 1 (1st floor) In this hands on workshop we’ll be looking at the basics of using Docker to deploy services in immutable servers. Starting from the absolute basics of installing and running docker we’ll then look at running pre-packaged images before moving onto creating our own. We’ll then use these images to see how Docker can be used to simplify testing and deployment of code. During the session we’ll be working with the linux command line, so a familiarity with that will be beneficial. The practical sessions will be run from the cloud, so a laptop with an SSH client will be needed. Dom Davis ( @idomdavis ) Dom Davis...

When: Wednesday, May 6th 2015, 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm  Where: The King's Centre, King Street, Norwich, NR1 1PH  RSVP:   http://www.meetup.com/Norfolk-Developers-NorDev/events/221751186/   There are Priorities, Priorities, and then there are PRIORITIES.   Today IT is generally seen as a critical if not essential part of our daily live’s, the data that it generates is readily accepted to be of essential importance. From mundane user generated data such as word documents (but only mundane as its content), to critical infrastructure regulating electricity supplies (but only critical if service affecting). One of the challenges we face is how do we understand what data is of critical importance and what is not. In addition another layer of added complexity is that one departments criticality is anothers nuisance, so how do we advise and decide as IT professionals what an organization really needs? Firstly in order to make an ‘informed’ decision we need to be…...

On Wednesday 1st of April (no, I’m not fooling) Norfolk Developers held a special event in the new “Technical Offices for Technical People”, at New Patrick’s Yard on the corner of Prince of Wales Road and Recorder Road in Norwich. New Patrick’s Yard is the location of the new Norwich based offices for Liquid 11 , the very successful technology company created and run by Grant Hardy. They also have plenty of spare space, which they want to rent out to other tech businesses. I first met Grant at SyncNorwich ’s Agile August and we’ve kept in touch and bumped into each other at various events since; so when Sally Harding, Liquid 11’s Business Development Manager, asked me if I would help to promote New Patrick’s Yard, I thought what better way than to run a Norfolk Developers’ event there? Some of you will remember that we had to do a last minute room swap between Seb Rose and Neil Garner at NorDevCon in February. It was so last minute that Neil had actually started speaking and s...